… others have said that would be not only disastrous, but it would be a direct tax on the american consumer. It would be a sales tax on the american people. The independent economists have already measured this by the sales tax of doing a 20% tariffs on all imports that he has described would be a 20% sales tax, in essence, on basic necessities for the average american worker, average american family, totaling almost $4,000 a year. That is no small matter here in Pittsburgh. When I'm talking to a group of folks who work here, who live here, and when they hear it might be $4,000 more a year for them, look, people can't afford that. (14:18–14:41)
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Asserts that a 20% tariff on all imports would act as a $4,000 sales tax on American families.
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